I am a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker and have been licensed for over 23 years. I can help you to find a better balance, improve your mood, reduce stress, change self-defeating patterns, and feel better about your life. I offer safe and supportive counseling for people struggling with anxiety, depression, problems with relationships, or who are simply trying to improve some aspect of their life. Therapy brings the opportunity to explore what is meaningful in your life and help you to make appropriate choices. I help people take charge of their life, build on their strengths and assets, manage negative/stressful issues or concerns and live a self-directed, joyful, productive life. We'll find solutions to life's challenges, reduce depression, anxiety, stress, and explore the "mind-body-spirit" connection to health and wellness. I work with adults, adolescents and children in individual, marriage and family therapy. I use a non-judgmental, straight forward approach with a dash of humor on the side. I am trained in EMDR Therapy and can help you sort through past traumas. Combining a variety of techniques geared towards each individuals learning style we will find the approach that works best for you.

Affiliated Counseling Center is an outpatient mental health center with offices in Fridley, Woodbury and Uptown. We have on staff over a dozen therapists who offer areas of expertise in a wide range of life isues. Our therapists work with children, adolescents, adults and senior populations. We offer counseling for individuals, couples and families. We offer evaluations, testing and diagnostic services for neuropsychological needs, including ADD/ADHD testing, testing for learning disabilities as well as gifted and talented individuals/children. We have on staff two psychiatric providers who offer psychiatric evaluation and ongoing medication management services. Affiliated Counseling Center is based upon humanistic principles, which value the client-therapist relationship above all else. Within this scope, our practioners utilize a variety of techniques and treatment modalitiies to assist clients, including client centered therapies, narrative, cognitive behavioral, motivational interviewing, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, the Hakomi Method (a technique focused on locating origins of pain within the self), psychodymanic therapy, dream analysis. We also offer anger management services, treatment for compulsions and obsessions, addictions including gambling and sexually motivated behaviors. We treat eating disorder, personality disorders, grief/loss issues, infertility and adoptions issues, blended family issues and more. We seek to meet the needs of the communities we have practice locations within, and offer a full breadth of services to meet that end.

Affiliated Counseling Center is an outpatient mental health center with offices in Fridley, Woodbury and Uptown. We have on staff over a dozen therapists who offer areas of expertise in a wide range of life isues. Our therapists work with children, adolescents, adults and senior populations. We offer counseling for individuals, couples and families. We offer evaluations, testing and diagnostic services for neuropsychological needs, including ADD/ADHD testing, testing for learning disabilities as well as gifted and talented individuals/children. We have on staff two psychiatric providers who offer psychiatric evaluation and ongoing medication management services. Affiliated Counseling Center is based upon humanistic principles, which value the client-therapist relationship above all else. Within this scope, our practioners utilize a variety of techniques and treatment modalitiies to assist clients, including client centered therapies, narrative, cognitive behavioral, motivational interviewing, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, the Hakomi Method (a technique focused on locating origins of pain within the self), psychodymanic therapy, dream analysis. We also offer anger management services, treatment for compulsions and obsessions, addictions including gambling and sexually motivated behaviors. We treat eating disorder, personality disorders, grief/loss issues, infertility and adoptions issues, blended family issues and more. We seek to meet the needs of the communities we have practice locations within, and offer a full breadth of services to meet that end.